Sunday, December 4, 2005

Keeping People Passive and Obedient

This sounds like it was written by someone in the scientific establishment talking about Neo-Darwinian evolution:

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." Noam Chomsky

Evolutionists remind us often that there's lots of disagreement among scientists with respect to the tempo and mode of evolutionary change and the extent to which mutation and genetic drift are acted upon by natural selection to bring about change. The debate is lively enough but conducted within strict limits. Only blind, unguided causes are allowed into the discussion.

The true believers passively accept the orthodox dogmas and meekly submit to them. As soon as someone seeks to add intelligence to the mix of mechanisms believed to explain living things, however, the cries of heresy ring out and stakes piled high with kindling are prepared. Any evidence that points within an arc of 180 degrees of a cosmic intelligence or a deity is excluded a priori. Evolutionists are not interested in truth wherever it may lie, they're interested in promoting a physicalist metaphysics whose truth they refuse to question.